DJ setups/Mixer porn/New toys thread...

NasserAlazzawi

Homegrove
NP. What gigs you got on this year? Are you headed to the UK at all?

Homegrove

NasserAlazzawi strictly locally, the occasional gig in Helsinki. All UG events. Add a few bar/ terrace gigs to that, which I do with Rekordbox DJ + Tidal on a laptop and any player they have. I play without mixing on this gigs due to the music being indie/ alternative rock/ pop mostly, so anything that links to Rekordbox DJ and has working cue and play will do.

Mad_Cyril

Anyone know of any good sites / FB groups for flogging stuff?

About time the Radius 2 was moved on, but can’t be arsed with eBay

Dubman

Mad_Cyril
Still got to post it either way. Unless you sell it on a local selling page on FB

Mad_Cyril

Dubman posting isn’t an issue, use parcelmonkey and always been brilliant.

More about eBay’s fees and having to deal with the dickheads

Dubman

Mad_Cyril
It’s specialist mixer. I’d just set a minimum price. Hopefully that should put off the whoppers.

Dubman

Anyone put a different Ortofon stylus in there cartridge. Would the sound change.

Homegrove

Dubman I have Club II on my single player. Sounded a lot better than Concorde which was my previous Ortofon cartridge.

Dubman

Homegrove
I’ve got a pair of Ortofon scratch cartridges . Would the club MK2 stylus fit on to them

Homegrove

Dubman doubt it.

Unbroken1

…no more Mastersounds mixers, FX units etc.

The end of an era…
Ryan here, I wanted to write to you all to let you know of some changes taking place at MasterSounds.
As we hit mid 2024, I wanted to give everyone reading this a heads up, to let you know that we are currently building our final units of MasterSounds DJ mixers, FX units, ISO4s and LinearPOWER supplies, once these are gone, we won’t be producing or selling any more of the above products, which I truly believe will become classics of the future.
From our chance meeting in 2016, myself and partner Andy Rigby-Jones @unionaudiouk set out on a mission to create and sell truly wonderful esoteric audio products. Our vision was to create equipment that are truly world class, with our esoteric principles of sound & simplicity at the fore. A vision that turned into an amazing reality, creating products and friendships that will last a lifetime.
It’s been an amazing journey of discovery, and one MasterSounds & Union Audio are continuing to make in different directions. Here at MasterSounds, we will continue to offer our first rate aftercare to all products now and in the future, and look forward to an exciting road ahead.
May I take this opportunity to thank you all for the unrivalled support you have given MasterSounds over the past 8 years of selling our incredible hand-made DJ mixers, FX Units ISO4s and LinearPOWER’s and for Andy and his amazing team of true lifelong friends at Union Audio for one hell of a ride. I’m eternally grateful.
As we tend to say a lot around here, let’s,
Keep on Grooovin’
Ryan x

https://www.facebook.com/mastersoundsuk

Sounds as if the current business is at odds with UA’s own line of mixers.
Wonder if this means they are going into the soundsystem market with TPI with both feet?

mjh

Unbroken1

ffs was on the verge of buying a radius 2. I thought I remembered something about them stopping production… just checked their website and it seems they’ve already sold out/removed them from their catalogue.

Will have a look for an alternative.

Homegrove

Bummer. I always dreamed but I doubt I was ever going to buy one.

Mad_Cyril

Might hold off selling the Radius 2 for a while then!

Heno

Sad they are going, great equipment not ridiculously expensive customer service was top notch.

Unbroken1

…still going, just no more mixers/FX units etc.

NasserAlazzawi

I think Denon will drop the SC6000+ (or SC7000) fairly imminently.

They’ve done crazy deals on the SC6000 to get rid of old stock (and are not replenishing them) - and now you can either buy them literally nowhere or there will be one or two still in stock if anyone is lucky to find the remaining ones at that price.

My guess is its just like the Prime4+ where they sold off the Prime 4 to make way for hardware that is now capable for Stems.

CDJ-4000 or 3000mk2 probably within 12-18 months too for the same reason.

Unbroken1

NasserAlazzawi

NasserAlazzawi CDJ-4000 or 3000mk2 probably within 12-18 months too for the same reason.

…that’s a very short lifecycle (based on previous gens) for the 3000 if so

NasserAlazzawi

Unbroken1 believe it or not mate, this is 2024 already. Feels like we’ve been cheated out of a couple of years use of them in clubs.

2009 = CDJ 2000
2012 = CDJ 2000nxs
2016 = CDJ 2000nxs2
2020 = CDJ 3000
…..

Whether any of us care or not (I don’t) the DJ hardware companies are fighting over the Stems space and the release of the Pioneer DDJ-FLX10 is their first iteration of hardware buttons for it. (top left corner)

Now that there are generations of DJs coming through who are skilled in their genre using it, and Pioneer are playing catch up in this field, I’d expect similar or even the same types of buttons on CDJ-3000 successor.

FWIW Stems is based on open source architecture and there are multiple versions (lower quality works on 2009-2012 laptops, higher quality works on approx 2019 onwards - Pioneer wanted the most amount of users to try it and it apparently sounds bad)

I watched an interview with Pulse from Pioneer who explained the quality of stems is about to change but it will either exclude old laptops all together, or have a system that detects what your laptop can handle and puts the most stable one for you to DJ on, on your laptop for it’s spec.

Probably great for Mobile DJs wanting to get creative with word play and not just play songs end to end, stuff like that.

NasserAlazzawi

Also - the Opus generation has an upgraded library called Device Library Plus. The one that works on our USB sticks was from the 2009 CDJ-2000 and it is so basic that it can’t display everything in one or multiple screen and do next gen stuff.

The next CDJ will have Device Library Plus so we’ll see much richer displays and they’ll finally be able to compete against the leaps Denon make seem easy with their menu / waveform / info display during performances. I’m looking forward to seeing those nice little updates cos the Opus Quad in person is a different class in this field.

-si-

Stems, as in the different parts of a track?

Jesus christ, there are clips of djs struggling to mix two complete records, never mind piecing sets together with a million different parts.

NasserAlazzawi

-si- Jesus christ, there are clips of djs struggling to mix two complete records

I am sat right here, I can hear you

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